Programs to accompany Goodkin-Gold et al. (2022) Review of Economics and Statistics. 

There are two Matlab .M programs associated with this article. These Matlab files carry
out all of the relevant numerical calculations in the paper. The programs are written in
version R2020a of Matlab running on Windows 10.

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epidemic_covid_calibration.m

This self-contained program carries out all the calculations for the Covid-19 calibration 
in Section 8 of the paper. The user can toggle commands generating the calibration for 
ancestral Covid or the Delta variant (overwriting the relevant, higher value of R0).

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epidemic_figures.m

This self-contained program generates the five-paneled Figure 1 in the paper.


